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- Saving Credentials on Windows Computers
- Articles / Authentication, Access Control & Encryption
- In this article the author discusses Windows Credential Manager and the ability to save credentials to a Windows 7 computer and how an attacker can exploit saved credentials using the command line tool vaultcmd.
- Identity (Management) Crisis (Part 2): Everything you (think you) know is wrong
- Articles / Authentication, Access Control & Encryption
- This article discusses how your identity is much more than just a set of credentials and why protecting your credentials is an important part of operating securely online.
- Authenex ASAS - Voted WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Award Winner - Authentication / Smart Cards
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- Authenex ASAS was selected the winner in the Authentication / Smart Cards category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. Smart Enterprise Guardian and eToken were runner-up and second runner-up respectively.
- Enhancing Endpoint Security for Windows Desktops (Part 2)
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- In this article the author will discuss how least privilege can help protect the computer from local user attacks, as well as how data leak protection can help protect the corporate assets from being sent inappropriately across the Internet.
- Identity (Management) Crisis (Part 1): The evolution of identity concepts
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- Feb 9th, 2012 Office 2012 Security (Part 1) - Threat Mitigation
- Feb 7th, 2012 A Complete Guide to UAG DirectAccess (Part 5) - Infrastructure Requirements (Cont.)
- Feb 2nd, 2012 Server Hardware Explained (Part 6)
- Jan 31st, 2012 Introduction to System Center Operations Manager 2012 (Part 5) - Agent installation and configuration
- Jan 26th, 2012 Free or Open Network Solutions
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- Feb 8th, 2012 Productivity and the Unintended Consequences of Security
This is an interesting article about the focus in today’s business world on ever-increasing productivity, and what that has to do with security. more...
- Feb 8th, 2012 CISO role must evolve
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) faces new challenges as the role in organizations takes on increased responsibility and becomes more integrated into the overall business management structure. That means CISOs will need additional skill sets, particularly in the areas of communication and understanding of basic business principles. Just being an expert in security isn’t enough anymore. more...
- Feb 8th, 2012 Enterprises often overlook longstanding security threats
According to a recent analysis by Trustwave SpiderLabs, attackers are taking advantage of the fact that many enterprises overlook older, longstanding threats while they focus on addressing the latest vulnerabilities and attack vectors. This means the same old problems persist and networks are still vulnerable to “legacy” attacks. more...
- Feb 8th, 2012 Adobe makes sandboxed Flash Player plug-ins for popular browsers
This month, Adobe released a sandboxed version of its Flash Player browser plug-in for Mozilla Firefox (Vista and Windows 7). Next they are planning to do the same for Internet Explorer, but they have given no date by which they expect to release the IE version. They had already done the same for Chrome in 2010. Sandboxing is a security mechanism that runs different processes in separate spaces, isolating them from one another and making it harder for malware to attack through the browser. more...
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- Feb 9th, 2012 Criminals open 'factory outlet' to sell stolen Facebook and Twitter logins
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